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temecania.

Headword: 
temecania.
Principal English Translation: 

to strangle someone with a rope
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 8, Folio 38 recto; https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/8/folio/38r/images/0

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents temecania in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

This verb appears in the text as quimecania, but temecania is a keyword attached to the image on the same page, and the keyword is defined in the metadata that goes with the image.
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 8: Kings and Lords", fol. 38r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/38r/images/0 Accessed 23 August 2025.

themes: 
Crime, Punishment
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See also: 
mecatl.